OpenSignal, which allows mobile phone users to find the best signal providers in their area, has raised $4m in a Qualcomm and O'Reilly Media-backed series A round.

Membership in the network has grown to 200 angels hailing from 10 countries.

Allied-Bristol Life Sciences is a new jointly owned enterprise to foster biopharmaceutical research at US universities.

Santaris, which is developing drugs based around locked nucleic acid technology, has been bought for $450m, providing an exit to investors including Novo.

Election software company Scytl has closed a $104m funding round, securing $44m from the second tranche after SAP invested $20m earlier this year.

Thee months after making its first venture investment, Bauer is following the lead of competitor Axel Springer by launching a dedicated fund that will focus on software.

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark crush all previous records with internet transfer speeds 430 times faster than current commercial technology.